How to factory reset iphone 8 plus

When you perform a hard reset, your iPhone 8 or 8 Plus immediately restarts. A hard reset is the equivalent of restarting your computer by unplugging it, then plugging it back in.

Why Should I Perform A Hard Reset On My iPhone 8 Or 8 Plus?

Although you shouldn't rely on hard resets to turn your iPhone off and back on, it can be a reliable way to turn your iPhone off and back on when its unresponsive, frozen, or experiencing a software crash.

Pro Tips

  • You may need to press and hold the power button for 15-30 before the hard reset is initiated.
  • The iPhone power button is also known as the Sleep / Wake button.

Having trouble resetting your iPhone 8 if it's unavailable after too many unsuccessful passcode attempts or you forgot it? Our guide tells you how to do to give it a new life.

Apple encourages you to create a screen passcode for your iPhone 8 or iPhone 8 Plus. It's the most important thing you can do to keep your stuff safe.

Things are a little different if you forgot the passcode or get the iPhone 8 disabled, though. There is no chance of unlocking your iPhone 8 without performing a factory reset, which should clear out all your data and bring it back to factory state.

Knowing how to factory reset iPhone 8 without passcode is a skill all iPhone 8 users should get. Don't worry if you're new to this kind of task. You don't need to be a technician to figure out how to unlock a disabled iPhone 8 without password as it isn't as complicated as you might think.

In this guide, we're going to walk you through the steps on how to factory reset iPhone 8 without passcode, from restoring the phone from recovery mode with iTunes to erasing iPhone 8 remotely via Find My iPhone feature and resetting iPhone 8 without password using a 3rd-party tool. After the password is removed and the device is unlocked, you can recover your data from a recent backup if you ever made.

Reset iPhone 8 without password through iTunes

Tip: if you have trouble using iTunes, please skip to the next part — Use iPhone Unlocker.

What you'll need:

  • A computer, either having a PC or Mac is OK
  • A supplied Lightning USB cable
  • iTunes, or Finder if you are running on 10.15 macOS Catalina and later. Be sure to update the iTunes to the latest version if it isn't yet.
  • Have a strong internet connection

When you forgot iPhone 8 password or get a message that says "iPhone unavailable try again" or "iPhone 8 disabled connect to iTunes," you'll have to connect the device into iTunes and erase it completely on computer. The application contains an advanced Recovery Mode to troubleshoot your iPhone 8 and reset it to factory settings.

If you don't know how to factory reset iPhone 8 without passcode using iTunes, follow the steps below:

1. Plug one end of the USB cable into your phone port, but don't connect the other end to the computer.

2. Press and hold the Side button and one of the volume buttons until you see the power off slider on screen. Swipe to right to shut down your iPhone 8. Then holding the Side button while connecting the device to your computer. Do this until the recovery mode screen appear, and then release the Side button.

3. Once you've entered recovery mode screen (see above), open iTunes on your computer. For a Mac with Catalina or newer, open Finder. It should display a message telling you that there is a problem with your iPhone 8 and need to a update or restore.

To reset an iPhone 8 without password, here select Restore, rather than Update.

4. Wait for iTunes or Finder to connect to Apple server and download iOS software for your iPhone 8. It reloads your software and unlocks the disabled iPhone 8 eventually.

5. Set it up from scratch or restore data from iTunes & iCloud backup.

Also see: What to do when iPhone won't go past Apple logo

Unlock disabled iPhone 8 with iPhone Unlocker software

What you'll need:

  • A computer that has internet connection
  • A Lightning USB cable to connect your iPhone 8
  • A third-party password unlocking tool

Something wrong with the iTunes? If you can't install iTunes on your computer to restore an iPhone 8 without passcode, or it is unable to recognize your phone, or anything else, taking an alternative option is the next step.

iPhone Unlocker is your one-stop password removing solution. It is desktop based and lets you quickly remove the passcode that secures the screen of iDevice, the forgotten Apple ID you use to access Apple services and activate the device, as well as the ScreenTime passcode for various parental controls.

Its compatibility is supreme; you can unlock any model of iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. As with iTunes, it essentially erases everything on your disabled device and restore it to factory defaults.

for Windows | for MacOS

Here's how to reset iPhone 8 password through iPhone Unlocker program.

Step 1: Launch iPhone Unlocker and select Wipe Passcode

Download and install the application on your computer, it works on both Windows and Mac machine. Once done, run it from desktop.

Attach your disabled iPhone 8 to the computer with a USB cable, and then choose "Wipe Passcode" in the interface.

Tip: You may need to click the "Device connected but not recognized?" link on the screen to manually put the device into recovery mode if the program can't detect the device. The on-screen instructions will walk you through the process.

Step 2: Check your device details

In this step, check your device details to confirm everything it right. If not, click the drop-down box to select the right one.

Step 3: Download iOS firmware

Next, you will have to download iOS software for your iPhone 8 by clicking the "Start" button. Ensure that you have a stable network connection. You will get a progress bar across the center of the screen showing how things are progressing.

Step 4: Begin resetting iPhone 8 without password

Once you've downloaded the iOS software package, click "Unlock" button there. A dialog should open, requiring you to read the message about the risk of resetting a disabled iPhone.

After confirmed, type into "0000" and click "Unlock" one more time.

That's it! Once the process completes, your iPhone 8 will be resetting to factory settings and unlock without passcode.

Unlock iPhone 8 without passcode via Find My iPhone

What you'll need:

  • You've signed in to iCloud on your iPhone 8 before you can't remember the passcode
  • Find My iPhone is enabled in the device already
  • iPhone 8 has access to Wi-Fi or cellular network

Find My iPhone is a very handy built-in service in iCloud website. You can use it to check the last known location of your iPhone, and do three additional things: Play sound, Lost mode, and Erase iPhone.

Be noted that after you use "Erase iPhone" option in iCloud to reset forgotten iPhone 8 password, the device will be activated locked. You need to enter your Apple ID and password to activate it

1. Go to https://www.icloud.com/find on your computer browser or another iPad's Safari, sign in with your Apple ID and password.

2. Click All Devices, then select the iPhone 8 you want to erase.

3. Click Erase iPhone.

4. Enter your Apple ID password and then wait for it restore your iPhone 8 back to factory settings.

Apple iPhone 8 Plus

How to factory reset iphone 8 plus

If your mobile/cell phone Apple iPhone 8 Plus works very slow, it hangs, you want to bypass screen lock, or memory is full, and you want to erase everything, or you want to sell it or give it away and you want nobody to be able to access your files and passwords. You can do a factory reset so that it returns to be like the first day. In the following steps we explain how to format the Apple iPhone 8 Plus to erase all your information and make it totally clean as it came out of the store. You must bear in mind that a reset or return to the factory state in a mobile deletes all its content, so you must make a backup of your data before doing it if you do not want to lose everything.

There are several ways to do a reset on an Apple iPhone 8 Plus depending on the data you have.

If you want to make a reset using the device options to return to the factory state an Apple iPhone 8 Plus you have to follow these simple steps:

Estimated time: 5 minutes.

1- First step:

Turn on and unlock your Apple iPhone 8 Plus to be able to reset or format it from the device's own settings.

How to factory reset iphone 8 plus

2- Second step:

Let's go to the settings of the Apple iPhone 8 Plus, it is the icon of the gear wheel that you will find on the home screen of the device.

How to factory reset iphone 8 plus

3- Third step:

We look for the “General” section within the settings, its icon curiously is also another cogwheel.

How to factory reset iphone 8 plus

4- Fourth step:

We go down through the “General” menu of our Apple iPhone 8 Plus all the way to the bottom until we find the “Reset” option and click on it.

How to factory reset iphone 8 plus

5- Fifth step:

Among the different available options that appear in the “Reset” menu we find “Erase All Content and Settings”, click on this option to start the Apple iPhone 8 Plus reset.

How to factory reset iphone 8 plus

6- Sixth step:

If you do not have an iCloud backup of your Apple iPhone 8 Plus data, photos and applications, a notice will appear inviting you to review the iCloud settings. If you want to make a backup copy this is the moment before deleting all the content of the device, otherwise click on “Continue”. The data you have uploaded to Google, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or backup copies that you have in the cloud, such as iCloud, Google Drive, Dropbox or One Drive, will not be deleted.

How to factory reset iphone 8 plus

7- Seventh step:

It will ask you for the password of the iPhone 8 Plus and if you have activated “Find”, you will also have to enter your iCloud username and password.

How to factory reset iphone 8 plus

8- Eighth step:

Your device iPhone 8 Plus from Apple it will restart and take several minutes to start while restoring the device to its factory state and optimizing the applications pre-installed in the operative system iOS 11, upgradable to iOS 12.1.

How to factory reset iphone 8 plus

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